For 2010 Brand Guides and the International KiteboardingClass Association (IKA) have announced the first official EuropeanChampionships in Freestyle Kiteboarding for the upcoming year.

A tour of five events will determine the best European Kiteboarder in thethrilling discipline of freestyle. Each individual event will also offerkiteboard racing with ranking points counting towards the IKA world rankingto cover two of the most attractive disciplines. For 2010 the series startswith stages in Austria, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and at least onemore country and will have a total Price Money of more than 60.000€.

“Due to the fact that the tour will be hosted by existing and wellintroduced events such as Surf Cup Podersdorf, Kiteboard Open in Nordweijkand Kitesurf WorldCup Sylt, the Kitesurf Tour Europe attracts more than250.000 spectators and ensures extensive European Media-Coverage vianational identification by the media. For the riders, the series offers agreat opportunity to compete in a professional set up without major travelexpenses”, states Thilo Trefz, CEO of Brand Guides.

“It`s a great step to present kiteboarding to the European audience at themost beautiful and popular beaches of Europe. We are happy to utilize BrandGuides` nine year expertise in running high level kiteboarding events forthe execution of the Kitesurf Tour Europe”, Markus Schwendtner, ExecutiveSecretary of the IKA added.

The web Site www.kitesurftour.eu will show the most recent details about thetour, and will be updated on a regular base.

The sanctioning body IKA (International Kiteboarding Association) is anInternational Class Association of the International Sailing Federation(ISAF), the world governing body for any kind of sailing activitiesincluding kitebording. Its responsibility, amongst others, is to manage theglobal administration of the sport and combining world events into oneunited ranking.

Brand Guides is an Hamburg/Germany based agency specialized in lifestyle andextreme sports and founder of the German championship series, the KitesurfTrophy (www.kitesurf-trophy.de) which is held with 39 events since 2002. TheKitesurf WorldCup Westerland 2009 was the first ever IKA sanctioned WorldCupevent.

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